Lake MI claims transplant team/harvested lungs

Longboardn' ASEL&S · Post by **Longboardn' ASEL&S** » June 4, 2007 10:02 pm

A Cessna Citation Jet carrying a U of M organ transplant team went down in Lake MI this afternoon after departing Milwaukee's Mitchell Field.
In addition to the 6 on board, including the surgeons, the freshly harvested lungs were lost as well. 6 dead, plus another will be now that one less pair of lungs are available. The intended recipient was just hours away from a new lease on life.
Us Parrotheads think about large bodys of water and planes that fly over them alot, this reminds us of the potential dangers that await.
These folks tried hard to save lives, but sometimes things go wrong and they fail.

z-man · Post by **z-man** » June 4, 2007 10:07 pm

that is terrible

sail on lifesavers!

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti ... 7/70604056

OceanCityGirl · Post by **OceanCityGirl** » June 4, 2007 10:10 pm

Believe it or not a human heart was found in a bag today or yesterday, outside of Phila. with a hospital name on it. They're trying to trace it now.

Longboardn' ASEL&S · Post by **Longboardn' ASEL&S** » June 4, 2007 10:14 pm

Turns out it was lungs that they had harvested. I'll fix my original post.

flipflopgirl · Post by **flipflopgirl** » June 4, 2007 10:35 pm

so sad! prayer for all of the families!

Sail on!

NorthernConch · Post by **NorthernConch** » June 4, 2007 10:40 pm

OceanCityGirl wrote:Believe it or not a human heart was found in a bag today or yesterday, outside of Phila. with a hospital name on it. They're trying to trace it now.

how do you lose sight of a package like that? UNOS will not happy about that.

caly · Post by **caly** » June 4, 2007 10:40 pm

Sail on and God bless all their families.

pojo · Post by **pojo** » June 4, 2007 10:41 pm

Here is the Story from WFRV...

Plane That Crashed In Lake Michigan Held UM Transplant Team

MILWAUKEE (AP) - The mother-in-law of one of the passengers on a plane that crashed Monday in Lake Michigan just off the coast of Milwaukee says she's gotten no word on survivors.

Sharon Manier's son-in-law is Richard Lapensee.

She says the family is asking for privacy.

All the passengers onboard the plane are members of the University of Michigan Flight Survival team that's part of the U of M Health System.

Dennis Hoyes and Bill Serra are pilots for Marlin Air, which flies all of the missions for Survival Fight.

The other four passengers - Doctor David Ashburn, Richard Chenault, II, Lapensee and Doctor Martin Spoor - are U of M employees.

University officials say the Coast Guard is leading the search for survivors.

The Coast Guard says a person could survive in current water temperatures for as many 16 hours.

The aircraft was being leased to the university by Toy Air and based at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti (Michigan).

It was en route back to U of M after procuring organs for transplant into a patient there.

That patient remains in critical condition, and the health system says it will not release the person's identity.

PackPhanGirl · Post by **PackPhanGirl** » June 4, 2007 10:42 pm

Just saw this on fox news...how tragic!

ragtopW · Post by **ragtopW** » June 4, 2007 10:42 pm

Sail on..

flyboy55 · Post by **flyboy55** » June 4, 2007 11:11 pm

I was a medivac pilot for many years before airline work, and lost two friends/coworkers this way.

Sail on crew and passengers.

Longboardn' ASEL&S · Post by **Longboardn' ASEL&S** » June 4, 2007 11:16 pm

flyboy55 wrote:I was a medivac pilot for many years before airline work, and lost two friends/coworkers this way.

Sail on crew and passengers.

We're used to this type of sad medivac news involving rotorcraft, but in a fixed wing turbine? Were you a chopper guy before the Airline?

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » June 4, 2007 11:19 pm

wow. a true loss for the good guys.

ph4ever · Post by **ph4ever** » June 4, 2007 11:30 pm

Mal said it best

Post by **SMLCHNG** » June 4, 2007 11:49 pm

buffettbride wrote:wow. a true loss for the good guys.

Uh huh..

sy · Post by sy » June 5, 2007 6:29 am

buffettbride wrote:wow. a true loss for the good guys.

Agreed

Longboardn' ASEL&S · Post by **Longboardn' ASEL&S** » June 5, 2007 10:12 am

One of them was a high school track coach and was supposed to receive a coach of the year award last night.
Another was a firefighter who became a nurse as well to work on the transplant team on his days off.
One was a resident in pediatric cardio-thoracic surgery.
Here's the bio of another:

Martin T. Spoor, M.D.
Clinical Instructor, Section of Cardiac Surgery

Practicing at:
Section of Cardiac Surgery
University of Michigan Medical Center
1500 E. Medical Center Dr
2120D Taubman Center
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0348
Fax: 734-764-2255
e-mail: mspoor@umich.edu
education certification honors bibliography

Education
1992 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada - Bachelor of Science
1995 University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Doctor of Medicine
Postdoctoral Training
1995-2001 Resident, Cardiac Surgery - University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2001-2003 Clinical Research Fellowship - University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2002-2003 Strategic Training Fellowship - Canadian Institutes for Health Research, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2003-2005 Heart Failure Fellowship - University of Michigan Health Systems, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2005-2006 Critical Care Fellowship - University of Michigan Health Systems, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Academic Appointments
2003-2006 Lecturer, Cardiac Surgery, Section of Cardiac Surgery Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical Center Ann Arbor, Michigan
2006-Present Clinical Instructor, Cardiac Surgery, Section of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan

And so on.
Tremendous loss of good guys.

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » June 5, 2007 6:01 pm

Longboardn' ASEL&S wrote:Tremendous loss of good guys.